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Originally posted by THGRRI:

Russia's going into debt with all the military actions it's involved in and the Russia people will be kicking on the Kremlin door shortly. Going into Syria was a move of desperation on Putin's part because Assad was about to fall. Anyone who thinks Putin wanted to put troops there and spend despretly needed treasure is ill informed.

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Not so sure - according to Russian media he has 310% approval rating.

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About 4,000 Muslims from ex-Soviet countries are fighting alongside the Islamic State in Syria and Putin feels they cannot let these people gain combat experience and go through ideological indoctrination and then return to Russia.

Islamist extremism is growing among Al Qaeda and IS in northern Afghanistan and the concern is they will find support from ethnic Uzbeks and Tajiks who had rejected the Pashtun Taliban.

One of the goals of the Russian operation in Syria is to stop IS before it opens a second front in Tajikistan.

As I said, I don't think Putin particularly likes the position he is in. Or appreciates the fact that Assad can't take care of business without Russia having to get involved the way they are now. I think the Russians are not as adept as the Americans who have more than a decade worth of experience doing this, and Putin is hoping for a quick knock out blow.

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Thought this was funny ....

ISIS Tries To Blow Up Russian Bombers With Flying Condom Bombs

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If you’re a black flag-waving, sword-wielding, desert bandit in white basketball shoes, you’ve got a lot of options when it comes to terrorizing the locals on the way to racking up territorial gains. After all, indiscriminately killing civilians and conducting brutal executions can exert a powerful psychological effect on non combatants and on poorly trained, ill-prepared army regulars for weak Mid-East states.

You don’t, however, have a lot of options when it comes to countering an all-out aerial bombardment by one of the most powerful militaries on the planet. Your options are even more limited if said aerial bombardment is backed by thousands of fearless militiamen belonging to a group that’s been fighting Mid-East proxy wars for more than three decades.

So, with Russia in the skies over Syria and Hezbollah on the ground, ISIS is in a tough spot. But you know what they say: when the going gets tough, the tough get going, which explains why Islamic State has devised an innovative strategy for countering Russian airstrikes.

What they’ll do, you see, is inflate condoms and attach a homemade mine to them. They'll then float the condoms into the sky in an effort to create a kind of condom bomb sky minefield. That, ISIS figures, should deter Russian fighter jets.

Here’s Sputnik with some epic sarcasm:

Left with little recourse in the face of relentless Russian airstrikes, the self-proclaimed Islamic State terrorist group has apparently resorted to a fairly unique defensive strategy. According a video that surfaced online on Wednesday, the group has begun launching homemade condom bombs, hoping they’ll somehow veer into a Russian bomber.
While Sputnik cannot independently verify the authenticity of the video, it appears to show IS militants creating aerial mines out of condoms, which are then released into the skies over Idlib.
The entire arts-and-crafts project is shown, scored to look like some kind of bizarre extremist music video.
In a desperate move, the contraceptive contraptions are seemingly meant to drift into Russian bombers as they fly overhead. A clever – if fairly ineffective – strategy.

Yes, a “fairly ineffective strategy” indeed.

As Sputnik goes on to note, "why IS prefers condoms to simple, run-of-the-mill balloons, is unclear, but if they think a bunch of exploding rubbers are going to scare off the military, they’ve clearly never been to Fleet Week."

At least now we know why the US has had such a hard time achieving results with 13 months of airstrikes - the condom bombs must be disrupting the operation...

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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-23/isis-tries-blow-russian-bombe
rs-flying-condom-bombs

Well, there are rumors and rumors about all kinds of behind-the-scenes negotiations and behind-the-scenes threats.

Saudi Arabia running off to Moscow.
Qatar threatening direct military intervention (on the side of Al Qaida, of course).
Iraq threatening to veer off-course, and appeal to Russia for help.
USA counter-threatening to withdraw all support from Iraq if Russia joins the fray.
Iraqi re-taking of Baiji (refinery). On the way to Mosul (?)
The repositioning of the USA carrier group far, far away from the Mediterranean (and cruise missiles)
Solid news of an agreement between the USA and Russia on "de-conflicting" the skies over Syria
Solid news of Assad's visit to Moscow

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By now everybody has seen the photo of Putin and Assad shaking hands. What has received less attention is whom Assad actually met.

Putin, of course. And Lavrov [Foreign Minister] and Shoigu [Defense Minister]. They spoke for a total of three hours. Then Medvedev joined them for a private dinner. Guess who else joined them? Mikhail Fradkov, Head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, and Nikolai Patrushev, Head of the Russian Security Council.

Guys, this is most definitely a power-meeting by any standard, something whic

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1KIKI

Saturday, October 24, 2015 10:12 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Cluster_Munitions

I will condemn Russia for any cluster bombs it may have used and for not joining the international treaty against them - exactly as loudly as you have condemned Israel and the US for the same in the past.

Otherwise - no, I'm not going to hold myself to a higher standard in this back and forth WITH YOU than you hold yourself. Or, to put it another way - since you're not interested in a open discussion, but instead use hypocritical tactics to 'win' for your 'side', I will not participate in your farce the way you want me to.

Got it?

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I heard a very interesting audio yesterday. Without trying to pinpoint exactly when it was released, this was clearly before Russia militarily joined in Syria. At least three weeks old, probably more like five or six weeks old. It turned out to be fairly predictive of upcoming events.

The commentator makes several startling statement in this fairly long video, one of which goes something like this:

In a two-hour closed-door meeting, Putin told the Turkish ambassador

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Tell your dictator-president Erdogan to go to hell and that unless he stops well established and easily proven support for ISIS, Russia will sever diplomatic relations. We are prepared to turn Syria into a big Stalingrad for Turkey and her Saudi allies and their vicious little gang of Hitlers.

Your little dictator is a hypocrite, attacking the military coup in Egypt while, at the same time, he is trying to overthrow the elected government of Syria. As it stands, China, Iran and Russia will guarantee the survival of Syria.

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Or words to that effect.

According to other sources, this information came from people close to Putin. And while I can't verify that this is exactly what happened, it matches other events that have been reported in the past:

Putin allegedly told Bandar ("Bush") bin Sultan, then chief of Saudi security, to go to hell after having been threatened with Chechen terrorists at the Sochi Olympics.

Just before Parliamentary elections two years ago (elections that Erdogan's party won, unlike the most recent elections that Ergogan's party lost) there were two mysterious releases of audio recordings, (a) one in which Erdogan's son is heard discussing (with his father) how to hide ill-gotten money, and (b) another in which the Turkish military command is heard discussing how to conduct a false flag attack on Turkey "from Syria" which would justify a Turkish attack on Syrian soil. So, who made and released those audios, hmmmm....?

Putin, when discussing the Turkish Stream pipeline, made reference to the fact that there is "life after Erdogan".

Clearly, no love lost between Putin and Erdogan! (Erdogan BTW looks like he's about to not obtain a majority at the upcoming election. It couldn't happen to a more deserving person.)

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The video goes on to discuss a number of other interesting topics, MOST have been already reported in western press (if only briefly) but there is another explanation about General John Allen's "end run" around Obama ("When you do an 'end run' around the President, it's called treason") in implementing a neocon-style intervention in Syria after being specifically told not to.

One of the things I may have mentioned here is my suspicion that neocon members of the State Department and command staff of the Pentagon are engineering events without Obama's knowledge or approval. Ukraine might have been one of them, and our potential military intervention in Syria may be another. Hillary Clinton, for example, is a neocon of the Brzenzinski mold, just like hubby Bill Clinton (who engineered the breakup of Yugoslavia). It was on Hillary's watch that guns were being run from Benghazi jihadists to Syrian jihadists, and it was on her watch that the consulate in Benghazi was attacked and "experienced ambassador" (ie probably CIA) Christopher Stevens was killed. It was also on her watch that Victoria "Fuck the EU" Nuland was caught picking the next government of Ukraine.

No wonder Hillary had her own email server!

Anyway, there are undoubtedly neocons packed in other corners of the Pentagon and State Department, and John Allen was one of them (according to this link).

It's an interesting link; I would certainly think about what this guy is saying because about 85% has already been reported in the western press .... he just manages to relate events in interesting ways, and nothing that he says is contr

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